Sentences with phrase «just oddities»

Were they just oddities, loners in the cosmos?

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

She's just an oddity cashing in on her 15 minuets of fame and being paraded by the GOP tring to reach out to other black voters.

Maybe it's just the oddity of what he's doing, he is after all very much an outlier.

The question now, he says, is, is Odontochelys emblematic of early turtles — or just an oddity?

Nordberg initially thought it was impossible: «Anthropologists, psychologists, and historians would surely also have taken note,» she writes, «as such a thing would seem to go against the common understanding of Afghanistan's culture, where one dresses strictly according to gender... Ergo, such a practice — if it was really a practice and not just an oddity — must not exist.

Not exact matches

It's unlikely the Tesla will be empty, just playing David Bowie's «Space Oddity» on repeat.

However, the canons of logic may not be suitable for judging this statement; for this assertion, just because of its logical oddity or paradoxical form, may trigger a disclosure that is essential to the possibility of a religious commitment.

The sheer complexity and oddity of Christian theology, as C.S. Lewis noticed, «has just that queer twist about it that real things have.»

South Philly water ice, which should not be confused with Italian ice, is a textural oddity, somewhere between a solid and a liquid, and just as easily slurped from the cup as eaten with a spoon.

Of course, this game might just be a bizarre oddity, one of those strange games that football occasionally throws up from nowhere.

All those little oddities, snippets of trivia and quirky facts about goalkeepers that you were just dying to know about...

The injury to Oxo, within 4 minutes of the start of the game, was an oddity as those sharp - eyed sleuths among you would have seen him on the centre line doing acrobatic calisthenics just before kick off, which indicated he was feeling something, dirty devil or he was trying to pose like a pixillated flamingo.

That's just one of the rules oddities that became clear last week as the 168 members of the Republican National Committee and top party functionaries met in beachside splendor to discuss the GOP's messy search for a consensus presidential candidate.

In his hands, entanglement is not just a scientific oddity but an essential tool.

Just a few months into its mission, NASA's newest Mars orbiter is finding an assortment of oddities in the Martian atmosphere, researchers report March 18 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

If you want some perspective on just how many oddities are still out there waiting to be discovered, Alfred McEwen is your man.

It's much more likely that Ata's skeletal oddities are caused by just one or two variants, he says, but «they've not gone and done any functional studies, which you'd normally do to prove that [a] variant was disease - causing.»

Just another hilarious online dating oddity!

Fans of Terry Gilliam rejoice, for word has just arrived that his latest effort - the Christoph Waltz starring oddity The Zero Theorem - has found a US home with Amplify and WellGo USA teaming up to release the film...

Although I do like my oddities when it comes to strange films, this one was just a little too «Far fucking out, man» for me.

There's none of the cynicism that's found in many of the genre entries of the time, just another reason its an oddity.

Previous non-canon entries into The Legend of Zelda series have taken the form of ways to show off a system's features, such as Link's Crossbow Training for Wii, or just other little oddities, such as Tingle's DS games.

«Notoriously born as «Zowie Bowie,» Jones has since scrambled far away from his father David's formidable sphere of influence and carved out a niche within the kind of thoughtful, low - budget space oddities that folks just don't make anymore.

Just because the likes of Zac Efron support these oddities, is he still happy to be associated in public with them?

Cohen says she has explicitly worked to «align Indigenous knowledge, cultures, and skills, and processes of working in every one of the activities so that they are complementary and they are not seen as being an oddity, or just a one - off».

This could be a new car from Citroen, but it could just as easily be another of those oddities that car makers throw at the southern end of the Americas.

He wore pink silk suits to perform surgery, added an umlaut to his last name just because he could, and amassed an immense collection of medical oddities that would later form the basis of Philadelphia's Mütter Museum.

Verdict: 5 Stars With just the right mix of paranormal oddities, romance, and a smidge of explicit fun, Bennett's series seems to wrap up with this installment, Banishing the Dark.

With just the right mix of paranormal oddities, romance, and a smidge of explicit fun, Bennett's series seems to wrap up with this installment, Banishing the Dark.

Just one example of the oddities of the OS on these devices.

Getting back to the roots of the manga in this volume is just what we needed to refresh Toriko for us and remind us about the oddity of the series and its plot.

There's just one hardware oddity.

You might think that I'm overreacting, that I should just look at Bugs vs Tanks as some silly little downloadable oddity, that I should put politics aside and just focus on the game play.

Well, Turtle Beach almost had a winner, but a clamping force that is just too obnoxious to ignore, and some oddities within its performance keel it out of of the race.

Duke Nukem began as a very simple 2D side - scroller, notable mostly for oddities like the main character wearing pink and just wanting to save the world so that he could get back to watching Oprah, but nevertheless blossomed into Duke Nukem 3D before publicly wilting into Duke Nukem Forever.

Every new character has one or two traits, be they flaws or assets, or just quirky oddities.

We've come a long way, but with the Wii U's sales struggling to match those of its main competitors and the oddity of replacing a console after just three years of shelf - life forthcoming, it might just be the perfect time to hang up our hats and let an old friend die with grace and dignity.

But despite the few oddities, everything just works.

Sure, the world of 3D World may stick to simpler shapes in its platforms than the whimsical oddities of the Galaxy series (no worm bridges across space apples this time), but while the environments are simpler the style remains just as intricate.

Judging by the trailer the studio has just released, this 2D platformer will still have the twisted oddities the developer is known for.

It's filled to the brim with puzzles, fun little oddities, and action, just like the real New York.

With each page that is turned the reader is greeted with bold and engaging images of still life, but not just the flower basket you may at first assume but stunning, horrific, weird and challenging images, that span all mediums and interpretations; from pleasantries to oddities.

VIP ticket holders will enjoy a champagne toast at Morbid Anatomy Museum — just a moment's walk from the Bell House — with Parker Posey along with a private tour of our current exhibition with its curator Ryan Matthew Cohn of TV's Oddities.

New AFC contributor Emily Colucci was initially attracted to Sardine's exhibition Space Oddity just for it's David Bowie name - checking title, since she (as well as the rest of the AFC staff) are still mourning the loss of our preeminent Starman.

And those are just the most blatant oddities and anatomical miscues.

The Moon's blackbody temperature is -2.5 °C but the mean temperature I quoted from elsewhere -LRB--23 °C) is just a meaningless average of some published max and min values (I learned this fact after you pointed out this oddity).

The other oddity is the «limited time offer, download now» just the kinda tone that gives.

But he didn't give the impression he was talking just to the oddities that think AGW is a hoax.

Actually, this is just part of the oddity; though it was not pivotal to the court's conclusions, at one point the plaintiff responded that he had no views on the merits of his own action.